Snap Core First for Windows

A symbol-based communication app custom-built for AAC.

Snap™ Core First® offers your child the opportunity to express what they truly mean. Designed for all ages and stages of language development, this AAC app is accessible via touch, eye gaze or switch and offers clear speech output. Caregivers will find it simple to set up, edit, track progress and get support. Snap Core First is available as a standalone app or pre-loaded on a selection of devices.

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Snap Core First gives you the power to fulfill your potential

Learning language, achieving literacy, and becoming an independent communicator is a journey with many stages. Snap Core First meets each communicator wherever they are on that journey and evolves with them as they grow. It’s designed to be the most intuitive and engaging symbol-based app on the market. With a variety of pre-designed button layouts, a full range of text to speech voices, free cloud storage backup and smart assistants, everything is easy to set up and ready to use.

A companion for your literacy and learning journey

Start communicating immediately

with tools and supports, like core words, quick phrases, and topics, that allow a communicator to initiate and guide the interaction.

Created to be the best

with years of research, feedback, and user testing. In user testing of SLPs and educators, 9 out of 10 tested preferred Snap over competitor apps.

Built for confidence

with the easiest navigation, no instructions are necessary, and a toolbar is always available with tools to support you as you move through the system.

Designed for easy customization and consistency

with a new user interface for easy editing and grid size changes, standard functions for dragging and dropping, quicker actions for linking pages, and a new Search tool for finding words quickly.

Who is Snap Core First for?

Snap Core First is the pinnacle in communication software for symbol-supported communicators and is designed to be the easiest to use, most intuitive, and consistently arranged solution available on the market, for both the user and the communication partner. Individuals of all ages with speech and language disabilities, including those with Autism, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, and other intellectual disabilities, can all benefit from Snap Core First.

What makes Snap Core First unique?

Snap Core First builds on Tobii Dynavox’s years of experience delivering AAC solutions. It brings the best parts of our previous titles together in a focused, solutions for symbol communication. The focus on AAC users who primarily use symbol-based communication has allowed us to create an intuitive user experience unlike anything before.

“Snap Core First is so fast and responsive! When you touch a symbol, you get immediate voice output. This ensures the motor, auditory, and visual input the user gets when they activate a button is simultaneous and that helps the child learn!”

- SLP & PROFESSOR FROM VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Research-based for success

The success of the Snap Core First platform stems from the cohesive use of the Core Word framework, topics, quick phrases, behavior supports, word lists, and keyboards that let a user naturally interact. Core First, which has its roots in research by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, helps the communicator continuously build vocabulary and skills and takes advantage of motor learning by introducing new vocabulary systematically and purposefully, which allows users to move up or down and always know where to find vocabulary. It is built on three pillars for communication success: growth, engagement, and literacy.

The Snap Core First difference

Statistically, literacy rates are extremely low for those who use AAC to communicate. In fact, according to “Literacy Intervention for Transition-Aged Youth: What Is and What Could Be,” by B. Foley and Julie A. Wolter, 90% of students in America with complex communication needs enter adulthood without acquiring functional literacy skills. Lack of literacy is an enormous barrier to education, independence, and many of life’s opportunities. With Snap, we are providing the best symbol-based communication experience available but also what is needed for a parent, teacher, or therapist and a child to work together so that the child can become a successful communicator, learn language, and ultimately achieve literacy.

Encourage engagement

Core First allows its users to be engaged fast, real-time conversations about topics that are important to them, which leads to engagement. These are the features that make real-time conversations possible! In Core First, you can easily find the right kind of message for any level of communication, including the Core word page, a library of topics covering many situations and events. Among the tools are also Quickfires, keyboards, word lists and behavior support. And of course, it’s a snap to add buttons on the go! It enables communications in a variety of situations and environments, which leads to greater user engagement.

Promote literacy

We believe that communicators should have access to literacy tools, no matter your starting level. Core First will help you continuously sharpen your skills and build upon them- making literacy possible. In this application, you can start at the most basic level- making literacy possible! We also offer a variety of tools to help pave the way; from Snap Scene, which engage emerging communicators to become literate with Core First Learning and The Accessible Literacy Learning (ALL) program.

Devices pre-installed with Snap Core First

Snap Core First can be accessed with eye control, touch and/or switch depending on the Tobii Dynavox device used.

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A Comprehensive Ecosystem of Support

Snap Core First is supported by an unparalleled ecosystem of content and a library of resources to help you learn and grow your literacy and communication skills. Created by leading professionals in the field, Snap Core First’s broad range of supports will help to ensure successful language development.

Pathways for Core First

Pathways is a free, one-of-a-kind companion app for Core First. Designed to facilitate successful use of Snap Core First software, Pathways is a unique learning gateway that will enhance your partner communication skills and features an interactive goal setting tool, lesson plans, and materials, cheat sheets, and videos to help you make the biggest impact on user success.

Free, downloadable Core First Lessons are designed to support the numerous free Core First Books we offer. The lessons focus on 3 key goals - to teach what each word means or how it is used; the position of the word in the system; and finally how the words work in connected text.

Integrated Smart Assistants

Access social media, entertainment, medical support, and environmental control via Alexa, Google Home, and Siri. These smart assistants are integrated into page sets. They support communication and access to information; promote engagement with people; and provide control of things such as music, games, television, and lights.

With Snap Core First, you can back up all your files to the cloud via myTobiiDynavox.com, ensuring you’ll never have to worry about losing what you have created. Also, this is an excellent way to practice remote editing and modeling. Remote editing is important for parents or SLPs who want to make changes to their child’s pagesets while their child is still using the device for communication, and modeling is one of the best strategies for teaching someone how to use the device.

The ALL program, created by Dr. Janice Light, Ph.D. and Dr. David McNaughton Ph.D., of Penn State University, is an evidence-based approach designed specifically to teach basic reading skills to students who are non-verbal and require augmentative and alternative communication (AAC).

Boardmaker Online offers a host of tools to support Speech Language Pathologists and Special Ed Teachers as they provide instruction to students. The Boardmaker Student Center app is where students of all abilities can go to access activities assigned to them through Boardmaker Online. The app brings the power of personalized visual supports and symbol-adapted educational materials.

There are an abundance of live and recorded webinars available for free on TobiiDynavox.com. Webinars ranging from beginner to advanced will be available for Snap Core First. Some webinars will be eligible for ASHA CEU credits.

Expertise and support you can trust

Our products are the innovative result of a highly-experienced team from Tobii Dynavox made up of educators, clinicians, PhDs, engineers, and professionals who are passionate about empowering others to reach their full potential. We work every day to help people communicate and achieve literacy so they can live richer and more independent lives.

Technical Support and Warranty

Service and support is easily available from one place, Tobii Dynavox, for all your Indi needs. Indi comes with a 2-year manufacturer’s warranty and 90 days of telephone support to get you up and running quickly.

The optional Tobii Dynavox Care warranty comes with telephone support and covers any device repairs, no questions asked! Contact your local sales consultant for pricing.

Tobii Dynavox also offers the most comprehensive support in the industry. Find all our support information at: www.tobiidynavox.com/support. In addition to email support, you can browse our knowledge base and find plenty of other support materials.

Snap Core First 1.11

Features:

Page Printing – Print a page or set of pages from within Snap Core First. Customize the printing field to include or exclude areas like the message window and toolbar. Ideal for existing users who want a low-tech solution readily available.

Watch this video to learn more Download this quick printing guide with instructions on how to print

FaceTime Capability - This feature allows Snap to be used while making calls on iOS 13 via the FaceTime App

Text Page Set Localization – The Text Page Set has been localized into the following languages:

Snap Core First 1.10.2

Features:

New Core First Scanning Page Set (U.S. English) - Designed for ease and efficiency, the Core First Scanning Page Set is organized to improve speed and ease of scanning. Four grid sizes (3x4, 6x4, 7x6, 9x8) help to eliminate scrolling in content as well as support group scanning. For those new to scanning, learn basic scanning skills with the Learn to Scan practice pages.

Manually update software within the Snap app on locked Windows devices – For devices connected to the internet infrequently or not at all, this features allows you to keep your software updated with the newest features and content releases.

Message Window / Copy Paste – Save messages by copying text from the message window (via accessible share window) to a button or copy to a place outside of Snap, paste text from clipboard into the message window.

Snap + Core First 1.5

Languages: Snap + Core First is now available in Portuguese (Brazil)

Features:

Data Collection - Track progress and communicate development over time with the new data collection feature. When the in-app track button usage is enabled, Snap will record information about each button activation. Basic button usage data can be visualized as button usage counts within Snap and additional data visualizations are available in the Usage Reports section of your myTobiiDynavox.com account. Modeling mode records data events separately so that they can be differentiated from normal user events.

Backup/Restore to myTobiiDynavox.com - You can now backup/restore your pages to myTobiiDynavox.com directly within the software.

IR Support for I-Series+ - If you’re using Snap on an I-Series device, it now supports IR functionality.

Shutdown/Restart actions (Windows only) – These actions can now all be done within the Snap software.

For a complete list of Snap + Core First updates and bug fixes, please click here.

Snap + Core First 1.4

Languages: Snap + Core First is now available in Spanish, Swedish and Dutch (Lite). The Dutch (Lite) version does not include software support for Inflector Buttons (word forms), automatic inflection of Grammar Buttons, automatic formation of contractions and compound words, and symbol search using morphological variants of words.

Snap is also available in English (US, UK), Bilingual English/Spanish, and German.

Features:

Delay after Page Change - for Gaze Interaction users that allows you to view newly opened pages without making eye gaze selections for up to 10 seconds

Pause Access Method (button type) - can be used to pause and un-pause the Access Methods Mouse Dwell and Gaze Interaction

Link Visualization (pageset style setting) - includes options to display all “link buttons” with Navigation Icons (the default), in a folder shape, or with no distinguishing style.

Clear after Speech (user preference) - automatically clears the Message Window when text is inserted after the Message Window has been spoken.

For a complete list of new Snap + Core First updates, please click here.

Snap + Core First 1.3

Snap + Core First Subscription Now Available - Need a short-term communication solution or do you want to just pay as you go? Snap + Core First is now available as a monthly subscription for just USD$9.99 (also available for USD$119.99/year). This option is perfect for those who want to pay only as long as they need Snap + Core First, for example users with a short-term medical need, like intubation, stroke or other brain injury, and other conditions. It is also ideal for users wishing to trial the software beyond the available 30-day free trial. In addition, the Snap subscription is a great way to access the leading software on the market without having to pay all at once. Subscription options are available for the iPad and Windows-based devices.

Additionally, joining the Spanish/English bilingual pageset, Snap + Core First extends the well-received software to support the German language. This German release introduces the German core words, is localized for topics, supports German word prediction and morphology, symbol search, and more. The German Snap + Core First page set also integrates the German LiterAACy supports from Tobii Dynavox’s Sono suite.

Snap + Core First 1.1

Snap + Core First 1.1 is here with tons of exciting new features like importing, exporting, and sharing content as well as integration with myTobiiDynavox.com. Here’s the scoop on a few more features we’re thrilled to share with you:

Syncing - You are now able to sync Snap + Core First between two different devices. This is especially important for modeling and being able to make a change without taking the device away from the user.

Companion App – Those using Snap + Core First on a Tobii Dynavox device now have access to a free companion app version of the software for use on a different device.

Tobii Dynavox for Professionals – ASHA- and SAC-certified SLPs, SLPs from outside the U.S. and Canada, and other professionals in the field can now get Snap + Core First for no charge through the Tobii Dynavox for Professionals program.

App Switcher – We’ve made it easy to seamlessly switch between Snap + Core First and Communicator 5. To do so, you can program a button in Snap to launch Communicator and vice versa.

For a full list of Snap + Core First 1.1 release features, please click here.

Snap Core First Subscription FAQs

Who would benefit from a Snap Core First Subscription?

This option is perfect for those who want to pay only as long as they need Snap Core First, for example those with a short-term medical need, like intubation, stroke or other brain injury, and other acute conditions. It is also ideal for those wishing to trial Snap Core First beyond the available 30-day free trial. In addition, the Snap subscription is a great way to access the leading software on the market without having to pay all at once.

What is the difference between the perpetual app and the app purchased on either the iTunes or Windows store?

The functionality is exactly the same. The difference is that you’re able to purchase the perpetual app with a purchase order. However, the perpetual app is for Windows only.

Once the amount I pay for the subscription reaches the full one-time purchase price of the app, do I own the app?

No, you would either have to continue paying the subscription price or complete the one-time purchase.

What happens if I miss a monthly payment on the subscription?

If you miss a payment, you will be reminded by email and asked to update your credit card details. In case of non-payment, your subscription will be cancelled and you will be notified that your subscription has expired.

If I start out with a subscription and decide to move to a one-time purchase, do I get credited the money I paid toward the subscription?

No.

Do you store my credit card details?

No, your credit card information is not stored. Currently, the customer enters the card, the number is passed directly to the gateway (Mastercard/Visa/American Express), and we receive a token which is used to charge it going forward. This is all in compliance with https://www.pcicomplianceguide.org/faq/.

Does my subscription automatically renew every month/year?

Yes, your subscription will continue to renew every month/year until you formally cancel. When a subscription is cancelled, the end date of the subscription is set to the last date in the current period in which you are enrolled.

How do I cancel my subscription?

If you wish to end your subscription, you can use the cancellation link provided upon initial subscription activation, or contact Tobii Dynavox Support. A cancelled subscription does not immediately become deactivated. Instead, the canceled subscription remains active until the end of the subscription period for which you have paid.

What happens to my pagesets if I cancel the subscription?

You will continue to have access to your page sets and to myTobiiDynavox.com when you end the subscription. The Snap Core First software will stop speaking and digital assets that are included with the subscription will become disabled (e.g. 3rd party, but not PCS, symbol sets). But the restoration of your subscription will also restore those features.

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